Banihal/Jammu : No fresh traffic was allowed on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway for the second day on Monday to facilitate clearance of stranded vehicles including trucks carrying essential commodities to Kashmir Valley, officials said. The highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, has witnessed frequent disruptions over the past […]
Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Monday decried the measure of dropping the name of Sher e Kashmir from SKICC, saying the move is reflective of contempt the present government nurtures for Kashmir’s true representative voices and their leadership. While talking to press party’s senior leader and Member of Parliament Muhammad Akbar Lone said […]
The NIA will also probe if the couple received any funds from other countries to recruit the members for the module. A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday reached the Delhi Police Special Cell office to question the arrested Kashmiri couple for their alleged links with the ISIS module. The couple from […]
The Opposition on Monday demanded immediate release of all political detainees in Jammu and Kashmir, especially three former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti. “There are growing assaults on democratic norms, fundamental rights and civic liberties of citizens,” a joint statement by Opposition leaders said. “As a result, dissent is not only […]
By Our Correspondent Police and authorities in Jammu said that Pakastani army resorted to heavy shelling on several forward posts in Poonch district of Jammu. Many news agencies quoted defense spokesman saying that Pakistan Army resorted to firing and mortar shelling on forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district […]
Amid the coronavirus scare, the district administration Ganderbal cancelled the winter sports festival in Sonamarg, officials said. Chief Executive Officer Sonamarg Development Authority (SDA) Mushtaq Ahmad said the day-long event being organised by SDA in collaboration with the district administration Ganderbal was scheduled to be held at Sonamarg on Sunday. He said the event has […]
On a bright March afternoon in 2019, former IAS topper Shah Faesal took to the stage to address a crowd of a few thousands at Gindun Park in the posh Raj Bagh area of Srinagar. Speaking in an idiom that brought back memories of late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Faesal announced the launch of a political party with an agenda of finding a peaceful resolution to the Kashmir conflict, […]
Srinagar Almost seven months after Article 370 was revoked in Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Home Ministry has informed a parliamentary standing committee that the J&K administration has identified nearly 84,000 vacant government posts in the newly created Union Territory but the recruitment is yet to begin as the details are still being scrutinised, reported The […]
A Pakistani youth was arrested by the Army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday. Faryad Ali (20), a resident of Kotli in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, sneaked into this side from across the LoC and was intercepted by the Army in a forward area in Balakote […]
SRINAGAR – Two labourers were killed and as many were injured in a mysterious blast inside an army camp at Khundroo area of Achabal in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday. Five labourers were working inside the army;s 21 FAD camp when the mysterious blast occurred, reported news agency GNS. In the blast, two labourers sustained […]